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(WASHINGTON) — Democrats helped Speaker Mike Johnson to pass a short-term funding bill in the House to avert a government shutdown before a Friday deadline — but it only kicks the can down the road for a week. The House voted 320-99 in bipartisan fashion to approve the short-term continuing resolution, pushing the funding deadlines […]
(WASHINGTON) — Facing angry lawmakers for the first time since his cancer diagnosis, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin testified Thursday that he takes “full responsibility” for keeping the White House in the dark when he underwent surgery and later when he was admitted to the intensive care unit after suffering complications. “Again, we did not handle […]
(SANTA FE, N.M) — David Halls, the first assistant director for “Rust,” gave emotional testimony Thursday about the death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins during the involuntary manslaughter trial of armorer Hannah Gutierrez. Actor Alec Baldwin was practicing a cross-draw in a church on the set of the Western movie in Santa Fe, New Mexico, in […]
(WASHINGTON) — Former President Donald Trump knows how to influence an election, that much is clear. In the last few years, he has championed down-ballot nominees, wielded extensive influence over primary races and had his fingerprints on the House leadership race. But Trump is already beginning to leave his MAGA mark on a new sort […]
(WASHINGTON) — Two of Donald Trump’s criminal cases face a key inflection point on Friday, as judges in Florida and Georgia weigh plans for the historic trials of the former president. In Florida, U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon is set to consider moving the May 20 trial date in Trump’s federal classified documents case during […]
(WASHINGTON) — Former President Donald Trump has made immigration a central campaign message and spent nearly every appearance on the trail talking about the issue while touting what he would do about it should he win another term. Both he and President Joe Biden are making competing trips to Texas on Thursday to visit the […]
(ORMOND BEACH, Fla.) — Florida authorities said they believe they’ve recovered the remains of a 16-year-old girl who vanished in 2004 in a mystery that took almost two decades to unravel. Detectives investigating the disappearance of Autumn Lane McClure found the remains while excavating her suspected burial site on Wednesday afternoon, the Volusia Sheriff’s Office […]
Andi Rice/Bloomberg via Getty Images (MONTGOMERY, Ala.) — The Alabama House of Representatives has passed legislation to restore access to in vitro fertilization after a controversial state Supreme Court ruling that embryos are children raised questions about the treatment in Alabama. Thursday’s vote, which was 94-6 with three abstentions, completes another step in a process […]
(NEW YORK) — New York City officials have vacated a Bronx furniture store that was converted to house dozens of migrants in “unsafe living conditions,” according to the New York City Department of Buildings. The vacate order was issued over “hazardous life-threatening conditions, lack of natural light and ventilation, and severe overcrowding,” according to the […]
ABC News (LOS ANGELES) — A blizzard warning is in effect in California as a new storm system moves into the mountains with potential to deliver more than 10 feet of snow. The heavy snow will begin blasting California’s Sierra Nevada mountains Thursday afternoon and evening, and will continue into the weekend. Up to 12 […]
